Greg Parma Smith at David Lewis Gallery

Layers of patterned origami paper painted onto canvas appear to be paper-clipped onto their supports in Greg Parma Smith’s inventive solo show at David Lewis Gallery. Behind them, a host of animated characters suggests that people and paper are waiting to be transformed into something more – a story set against a patterned backdrop? (On the Lower East Side through October 5th).

Greg Parma Smith at David Lewis Gallery, September, 2014.

Martin & Erik Demaine at Guided by Invoices

Martin and Erik Demaine, a father and son sculpture-making duo both teaching at MIT, printed Graham Greene’s 1954 short story ‘The Destructors’ on paper, then cut, scored and combined separate sheets to create these dynamic forms.  (At Chelsea’s Guided by Invoices through July 13th).  

Erik and Martin Demaine, 0363, Language Series, Destructors III, elephant hide paper, 2013.